This was a job I carried out because I am currently cleaning up the engine bay
of the DHC. When I restored the car I used VHT wrinkle paint to finish the cam
cover, header tank and air filters. And at the time it looked very nice indeed. But time and some hard miles
hadn't been kind to it. So when I was sorting the parts that needed coating for
the DHC, I added a few items for the DHC. Including a cam cover.
That was
how it looked before and this is how it returned from powder coating the previous
week .
And with
another day of from work I had planned to fit it to the car. But as
I don't take much for granted I thought it a good a idea to first check that the
cam cover gasket was a proper fit. It wasn't!
As you can
see the gasket is too long and the shape behind the sprocket wheel cover is incorrect.
So the plan to fit it quickly went out of the window. But not before the gasket
was glued to the cam cover with the help of some sticky sealant and a lot of clothespegs.
After which it was put aside for the sealant to cure. To be continued!
As the
weather was rather quiet (with little wind) I used the remaining time to get
same paint to a set of header tanks. These were also sent of for coating, one
for the FHC and the other to match the freshly coated cam cover for the DHC. But
due to the fact that these are soldered they didn't dare powder coat them. As
they were afraid that the heat needed or the coating (±180°C) would melt the soft
solder. But they were lightly shot blasted though ...
Which
should give a good base for a more traditional treatment with some rattle cans!
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